Yeni Kərki


Yeni Kərki is a village and the least populous municipality in the Kangarli Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Nakhchivan-Sharur highway, 14 km in the north-east from the district center. Its population is mainly busy with animal husbandry. There is a secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 380.

History

Yeni Kərki was founded by refugees from Karki village of the Sadarak Rayon. Karki was occupied by the Armenia on 19 January 1990, during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Etymology

Oykonim is related with the name of the Karki tribe. In the sources indicated that the Karki tribes came to Azerbaijan in the composition of the Turkic Kipchaks in the early Middle Ages. There is information about the existing tribe of the kərkibaşlı which was the one of the arms of the qazakhly tribe in the beginning of the 19th century. One of the arms of the Ersari tribe of Turkmens was called Karki. Karki tribes were registered on the territories of Uzbekistan and Turkey. In the territory of the Turkmenistan are exist a city, district, settlement and Kərkidag mountain which is also named Karki.